remove more cruft no longer needed
diff --git a/Lib/xmlcore/dom/minidom.py b/Lib/xmlcore/dom/minidom.py
index d4f34b7..a8abd14 100644
--- a/Lib/xmlcore/dom/minidom.py
+++ b/Lib/xmlcore/dom/minidom.py
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@
from xmlcore.dom.minicompat import *
from xmlcore.dom.xmlbuilder import DOMImplementationLS, DocumentLS
-_TupleType = type(())
-
# This is used by the ID-cache invalidation checks; the list isn't
# actually complete, since the nodes being checked will never be the
# DOCUMENT_NODE or DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE. (The node being checked is
@@ -523,7 +521,7 @@
return cmp(id(self), id(other))
def __getitem__(self, attname_or_tuple):
- if isinstance(attname_or_tuple, _TupleType):
+ if isinstance(attname_or_tuple, tuple):
return self._attrsNS[attname_or_tuple]
else:
return self._attrs[attname_or_tuple]
@@ -1170,7 +1168,7 @@
return n
def __getitem__(self, name_or_tuple):
- if isinstance(name_or_tuple, _TupleType):
+ if isinstance(name_or_tuple, tuple):
node = self.getNamedItemNS(*name_or_tuple)
else:
node = self.getNamedItem(name_or_tuple)